Contributor
Laurie Lynn Drummond
Laurie Lynn Drummond is a former uniformed officer in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and the author of the linked-story collection Anything You Say Can And Will Be Used Against You, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her essays have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, River Teeth, Fourth Genre, and Brevity. This essay is an excerpt from her memoir-in-progress, Losing My Gun.
Recent Writing
Girl, Fighting
True Crime
Alive
There is a serial killer at work in Baton Rouge, and so, as I drive into the city on this rainy, mid-August afternoon to visit family, I move from simply alert to hyper-alert.Issue 27
Girl, Fighting
The first time I got punched in the face—punched, not slapped or shoved or struck or thumped by a flying elbow gone astray, but punched as in a fist landing squarely on the lower quadrant of my right cheek—it was delivered just after midnight in an apartment parking lot off Airline Highway in south Baton Rouge by a man at least 5 inches taller and a good 70 pounds heavier than I was.Issue 22
